Rat intervertebral disc health during hindlimb unloading: Brief ambulation with or without vibration

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1078-1084

  Holguin, Nilsson ^a   Judex, Stefan ^a  

^a St Francis Hospital The Heart Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Degeneration; Intervertebral disc; Mechanical signals; Microgravity; Spine; Suspension

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VIBRATION; WEIGHT BEARING;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HINDLIMB SUSPENSION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VIBRATION; WEIGHT-BEARING;

RATTUS;

EID: 79951605380     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2818.2010     Document Type: Article

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